Campylobacter concisus is prevalent in the gastrointestinal tract of patients with microscopic colitis

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Objectives Microscopic colitis (MC) is potentially induced by an inflammatory reaction to a luminal gut factor. The emerging pathogen Campylobacter concisus is associated with prolonged diarrhoea and subsequently increased risk of MC. We aimed to examine the prevalence of C. concisus in clinical samples from MC patients, analyse the subtypes collagenous colitis (CC) and lymphocytic colitis (LC), and characterise...

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